The Web of the Chozen (1978)
The Web of the Chozen is a 1978 american science fiction book written by Jack L. Chalker.
Bar Holliday scouts terraformable worlds for a corporation that plunders them, and he is the best there is, an oddball loner who takes wrong chances only at the right moments and never settles for second place. Then he finds Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hanging over a planet that should not be habitable but is. Below waits Patmos, and its people, the Chozen, where everything looks safe and nothing is. This is classic Jack L. Chalker science fiction, the kind where a confident man walks into an alien puzzle designed to remake anyone who steps onto it.
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What is The Web of the Chozen about?
Bar Holliday scouts terraformable worlds for a corporation that plunders them, and he is the best there is, an oddball loner who takes wrong chances only at the right moments and never settles for second place. Then he finds Peace Victory, an abandoned generation ship hanging over a planet that should not be habitable but is. Below waits Patmos, and its people, the Chozen, where everything looks safe and nothing is. This is classic Jack L. Chalker science fiction, the kind where a confident man walks into an alien puzzle designed to remake anyone who steps onto it.
When was The Web of the Chozen published?
The Web of the Chozen was published in 1978.
Who made The Web of the Chozen?
The Web of the Chozen was written by Jack L. Chalker.
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Readers drawn to Patmos, a world that quietly transforms whoever arrives, will find the same dread in Annihilation, and the survival-on-a-hostile-planet pull of Subnautica matches Holliday's fight to master ground that keeps changing the rules on him.
Jack Chalker's own Well World, planets that remake anyone who lands
Chalker built a whole shelf of novels around this same idea before and after The Web of the Chozen, a planet-sized machine that reshapes anyone who crosses onto it. These are more entries from that Well World saga, following different travelers into the same reality-bending geography and the same question of what a body and a life are really for.
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